Chalk-holder.



No. 680,702. Patented Aug. 20, 190i.

' S. T. DAY 81. D. S. HALL.

CHALK HOLDER.

(Application filed Feb. 8, 1901.)

(No Model.)

lhviTEio STaTEs PATENT @EETTIE.

SHUBAEL T. DAY AND DELIA S. HALL, OF DENISON, IOYVAL CHALK- HOLDER.

SEECIFIQATIQH forming part of Letters Patent No. 680,702, dated August 20, 1 901.

Application filed February 8, 1901. $erial No. 46,483. (No model-l T0 00% whom, it may concern.-

. Be it known that we, SHUBAEL T. DAY and DELIA S. HALL, citizens of the United States, residing at Denison, in the county of Crawford and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Chalk- Holders; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to school furniture, and more especially to that class of devices intended for holding the chalk and the eraser; and the object of the invention is to improve such devices with respect to their utility and cleanliness.

To this end the invention consists, broadly, in a trough-like receptacle secured along the lower edge of the blackboard and a drawer suspended beneath said receptacle; and it consists, specifically, in certain details in the construction of the parts, all as hereinafter more fully described and as shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view of a blackboard having attached thereto the improved device, here shown as made in several sections, whereof the drawer of one is entirely removed and that of another partially withdrawn. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through one of such sections with the door slightly raised. Fig. 3 is a transverse section through one of the sections.

Referring to the said drawings, 1 designates the blackboard,which in some cases may have a molding 2 along its lower edge.

3 is a receptacle, preferably of light sheet metal, such as tin, and of rectangular crosssection, and 4 its back, which is shaped so as to be attached to the blackboard or to flt over the molding 2. The lower edges of the front and back of the receptacle are formed into inturned flanges 5, upon which is supported a fine-wire sieve 6, which preferably extends from one end of the receptacle nearly, but not quite, to the other, leaving an opening over which is a door 7, that is hinged at 8 to the end of the receptacle. The latter may be made all in one trough, or, as shown in the drawings, it may be in sections secured along the lower edge of the blackboard.

10 designates a drawer, of which there is one for the entire trough or one for each section. It has a handle 11 on its front and an outwardly-projecting flange 12 at the top of each end. Said flanges slide in above cleats 13, which depend from one of the ends of the receptacle or the sections thereof. The drawer is also preferably of light sheet metal and of about the construction shown.

In use the receptacle holds the chalk and the erasers, and the dust sifts through the sieve into the drawer, where small pieces of chalk may be brushed from time to time by raising the door 7. Occasionally the drawer is withdrawn and cleaned, after which it is replaced and the device is ready for further use. It is not desired to limit the invention to a device of the exact construction herein set forth, as considerable change in the details may be made without departing from the essential principles.

What is claimed as new is 1. A device of the character described con sisting of a trough-like receptacle having inturned flanges along the lower edges of its front and back, a Wire sieve secured upon said flanges and extending from one end of the receptacle nearly to the other so as to leave an opening, and a door hinged within the receptacle and adapted to close over said opening; combined with a drawer beneath the receptacle, all as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A device of the character described consisting of a trough-like receptacle whose back is adapted to be secured along the lower edge of a blackboard and whose bottom is a finewire sieve; combined with a drawer having outward-projecting flanges at its ends, and inturned cleats depending from the ends of said receptacle for supporting the flanges of the drawer, all as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a device of the character described, the combination with a receptacle, a fine- Wire sieve forming the bottom thereof and In testimony whereof We affix our signaextending from one end nearly to the other tnres in presence of two Witnesses.

so as I30 leave an opening, and. a hinged door closing said opening; of cleats depending g g fgg g P 5 from the ends of the receptacle, a drawer having flanges engaging said cleats, and a Witnesses:

handle on the drawer, all as and for the pur- CHARLES EDWARD PARRISH, pose set forth. SARAH GRACE PARRISH. 

